I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

Servers and clients are the building blocks of computer networks Client-server networking grew in popularity during the 1990s ...

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Developers, listen up: Everything you’re doing now will be irrelevant within the next ten years. The way you think about and build applications, services, and software — along with the tools you use ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

What is an app? Most people think of them as the little, self-contained bits of software on our phones. They have shiny icons, and we get them through app stores. Sometimes they are useful. Often they ...

Local area networks are now a part of most businesses and organizations, providing connectivity between computers, printers and other devices and facilitating efficient communications within a ...

vSphere 5.0u1, I have the vSphere Web Client running on the vCenter Server Appliance. It's all running on a Mac Pro 5,1 (most recent model). I'm trying to deploy an OS X 10.7 VM from template. I can ...